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... abstract speculations may pass it over for a similar reason ; if they have never been entangled in a web of metaphysical subtilties , a clew to the labyrinth will be of no service to them . Some repetitions will be found in these ...
... abstract speculations may pass it over for a similar reason ; if they have never been entangled in a web of metaphysical subtilties , a clew to the labyrinth will be of no service to them . Some repetitions will be found in these ...
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... abstract , and perfectly simple or uncompounded nature of the ideas which enter into such reasoning . These ideas are pure creations of the intellect ; in their uncompounded and abstract character they are not derived from observation ...
... abstract , and perfectly simple or uncompounded nature of the ideas which enter into such reasoning . These ideas are pure creations of the intellect ; in their uncompounded and abstract character they are not derived from observation ...
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... abstract ideas ; and the study of the relations of words is therefore a study of the re- lations of ideas , and must proceed by the former of the two methods which we have been considering , that is , by intuition and demonstration . We ...
... abstract ideas ; and the study of the relations of words is therefore a study of the re- lations of ideas , and must proceed by the former of the two methods which we have been considering , that is , by intuition and demonstration . We ...
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... abstract science . The undue extension of the inductive method to the region of pure ideas produced the ethical system of Hobbes , himself a friend and disciple of the great master , but whose philosophy is now a byword from its de ...
... abstract science . The undue extension of the inductive method to the region of pure ideas produced the ethical system of Hobbes , himself a friend and disciple of the great master , but whose philosophy is now a byword from its de ...
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... abstract ideas , or , in other words , to ascertain facts by the aid of a transcendental logic . It would be very unjust to accuse the inductive method of leading to these gross blunders , which have arisen solely from a misapplication ...
... abstract ideas , or , in other words , to ascertain facts by the aid of a transcendental logic . It would be very unjust to accuse the inductive method of leading to these gross blunders , which have arisen solely from a misapplication ...
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Page 35 - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Page 24 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 144 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 92 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth...
Page 377 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 136 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 371 - What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize...
Page 137 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Page 164 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 51 - In short, there are two principles which I cannot render consistent, nor is it in my power to renounce either of them, viz. that all our distinct perceptions are distinct existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences.